An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
A sharp focus snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social rev ...Show more
Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one, personality-packed book that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterpr ...Show more
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester. In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. A ...Show more
Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History by Hugh Williams
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History by John Michael Greer
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Next in the popular "Element Encyclopedia" series, comes the complete A-Z of alternative history. Discover everything you ever wanted to know about secret societies like the Freemasons, the historical mystery of Atlantis, why King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci and Hitler are key figures, plus conspiracy the ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Koombana Days by Annie Boyd
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The elegant, ultra-modern S.S. Koombana arrived in Western Australia in March 1909. After only three years of Nor'-West service, the ship and her entire complement disappeared in a late-summer cyclone off the Pilbara coast. The vessel has never been found and the tragedy remains unexplained. Koombana Da ...Show more
Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement from 1971 to 1979 by Robert Hunter
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A gripping personal account, this book is written by a man who participated in some of the most publicized international environmental actions ever undertaken. Robert Hunter was a much loved member of Greenpeace from its inception, when he and 10 others sailed aboard a rusting ship on a voyage to protec ...Show more
Ill-Starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin by Anthony J. Brown
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'[Anthony Brown's] ingenious interweaving of the tales of these two very different expeditions brings the story of Australia's exploration to life in a riveting and insightful new narrative.' Tim Flannery Amid the Napoleonic Wars, France and Britain launched rival voyages of discovery to the Antipodes. ...Show more